Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered the first significantAmerican painter in 20th-century art. After decades of patientwork, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950shas continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted theloneliness of big-city people. Many of Hopper's pictures representviews of streets and roads, rooftops, and abandoned houses,depicted in a brilliant light that strangely belies the melancholymood of the scenes. Hopper's paintings are marked by strikingjuxtapositions of colour, and by the clear contours with which thefigures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremelyprecise focus on the theme of modern men and women in the naturaland man-made environment sometimes lends his pictures a mood ofeerie disquiet. On the other hand, Hopper's renderings of rockylandscapes in warm brown hues, or his depictions of the seacoast,exude an unusual tranquillity that reveals another, more optimisticside of his character.
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